GERMAN DEMANDS

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 140, 15 June 1935, Page 9

GERMAN DEMANDS

TALKS IN BRITAIN. Greatly Increased Naval Building. BRITISH ATTITUDE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, June 14. Herr von Ribbentrop and other members of the German naval mission who returned to London yesterday were received by the Foreign, Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, this morning, and later in the day there were individual exchanges of views between them and members of the British delegation on certain technical matters.

The British delegation will meet tomorrow, and a formal joint meeting of the two delegations will be held later.

The form of the ultimate agreement that may be expected to emerge from the present discussions remains to be settled,, but it is understood that the basis of it will bo an arrangement under which German construction would be limited to 35 per cent of the British naval strength, calculated in categories of under-age ships, subject to such latitude as may stem necessary, and provided that the ratio would not be subject td disturbance by the action of other Powers, or by any future change in Germany's status.

It will be recalled that Herr Hitler in his Reichstag speech, when defining the German naval demands, declared that for Germany this 35 per cent ratio was fixed and abiding.

The newspapers warmly welcome the prospect of an arrangement between Britain and Germany on these lines, to take its place in any agreement that may later result from an international discussion of limitation of naval armaments. *

The other Powers signatory to the Washington and London naval treaties have been informed of the stage reached in the Anglo-German talks.